Kyle was too anxious to inform his mother about his ranking results, and the day was getting darker as well. Therefore Kyle didn't waste time boarding a bus like he did earlier. Instead he ran all the way back home on his feet.
When Kyle arrived at their apartment, he was surprised to see that his mother was not back home yet. He didn't think too much about it at first, so he just headed inside his room to have a shower and change his clothes.
Kyle came back into the living room but Natasha wasn't home. As Kyle glanced at the wall clock, he wondered if she was too busy at her stall. He decided to make dinner for both of them before Natasha got home.
Kyle had finished preparing the meal and had even set up the dining room after an hour, but Natasha wasn't home yet. He started to get worried because this was the first time his mother had been late home like this.
When Kyle couldn't take it anymore, he decided to go and find Natasha. Since her stall wasn't too far away from the apartment, it didn't take long for him to reach there.
Kyle approached Natasha's stall only to find a lot of people standing in front of it while the stall was destroyed. He recognized that most of the people here were also stall owners.
"What happened and where is my mom?" Kyle questioned but something in his gut was telling him he wouldn't like the answer they were going to give.
"Ummm, you see...umm....the thing is, some men came by this morning and they took Natasha away in a car. We are sorry that we couldn't do anything to help her but as you know we're powerless against them." One of the stall owners explained.
Kyle was overcome by a surge of bloodlust after hearing that his mother had been forcefully taken all day. While he was busy doing something irrelevant all day, she had been suffering.
For Kyle, neither school nor the metahuman association mattered as much as Natasha. He was irritated by the fact that he was still naive, if he had come to look for her earlier maybe he would be closer to saving by now. Instead, he was stupidly making dinner.
"Who did it?" Kyle growled in anger.
"We didn't recognize them but they said they were from Big Joe." Another stall owner answered.
Kyle didn't wait any longer and he just disappeared from the presence of everyone. However, Kyle was sprinting towards Big Joe's current location at his highest speed.
There was only one place to find Big Joe and that was at his own club that was located within the district. It was the most popular club in the area and the hangout of all the thugs in the area, therefore it wasn't too difficult for Kyle to find it.
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Meanwhile, at Big Joe's club
"What do you mean by you couldn't find her? Big Joe roared at Otto furiously.
"I gave you fools just one job....one easy-peasy job and you have the guts to stand right in front of me and tell me that you couldn't complete the task I gave you."
Otto bowed deeply as Big Joe yelled at him in rage. "Forgive us boss but she just disappeared."
"And if you don't know how it actually happened, then at least you should figure out where she is now." Big Joe placed his hand on his forehead. "Oh my God, why am I surrounded by a bunch of fools?" Big Joe lamented.
This had been a golden opportunity for him to finally attain what he had been desperately desiring for a long time. He had devised a flawless scheme to achieve that objective, but now everything seems to be falling apart.
Although Big Joe felt very exhausted, he kept his composure in order to keep his mind focused to resolve the problem at hand.
"Otto." Big Joe called in a low tone.
"Yes boss" Otto answered sharply.
"You've disappointed me.... so much" Big Joe said.
"Forgive me boss, I promise that I won't make the same mistake twice." Otto sincerely apologized.
"Hmmmm" Big Joe nodded. "Where is that dimwit? I want to know why the information he gave us was incorrect." Big Joe asked.
"He is downstairs in the lounge with the rest of the other boys. I told them to wait there while I came to break the news to you." Otto explained.
"Get his ass here right now, both him and I have got some serious talking to do." Big Joe ordered.
Otto bowed slightly before exiting the room to bring Brute just as Big Joe had instructed.
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Kyle arrived at his destination and walked towards the entrance of the club. As he was about to enter the club, one of the two bouncers at the door blocked him.
"Hey, where do you think you're going? I haven't seen you here before." He challenged Kyle with an intimidating look.
"Is Joe in the building?" Kyle asked ignoring the bouncer's question.
"Tsk..look at this punk, what business does a wimp like you have with the boss?" The bouncer said with a mocking smile.
"I suppose it doesn't matter, I'll just have to find out for myself, just get out of my way or else." Kyle said.
"Hey kid, this isn't a place for you to act tough. If you don't turn around now we'll have to beat the shit out of you. So just go back home while we're still being kind." The second bouncer intervened.
Kyle ignored their warning and began making his way into the bar.
"Hey I said stop" the first bouncer tried to stop Kyle by grabbing him on his shoulder from behind.
However Kyle grabbed the bouncer's hand and tossed him to the ground. The second bouncer also wasted no time attacking but he was quickly intercepted by Kyle who swiftly grabbed his arm and flung him towards the door of the club, causing it to be shattered in pieces.
The collision of the bouncer against the entrance was loud enough to attract the attention of everyone in the room. Now everybody was looking in that direction and wondering what was going on.
When Kyle's figure emerged, he walked slowly but confidently into the club. The confusion in everyone's minds intensified, because this was the first time they had witnessed something like this happening at Big Joe's club.
Nobody in this district had what it took to mess with Big Joe and now they were seeing something as unimaginable as a kid destroying his club.
Kyle took a moment to scan the room. He noticed it was filled with many thugs and whores that came to this filthy joint to party.
"I have no problem with you all except Big Joe. Now will someone be kind enough to call that stupid dumb pig out here for me so I can beat him up?" Kyle loudly declared.
Almost everyone felt like vomiting and swallowing it back after hearing Kyle's claim.
"Did this kid say he wanted to beat Big Joe?"
"Was he really seeking death that desperately?"
Various kinds of questions kept popping into everyone's minds. Because that was a very bold claim which no one has yet to accomplish in this district.
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"Big words coming from a little guy like you, but the question is if you can back it up?" Otto walked down the stairs leading to the lounge.
Otto had come to bring Brute to see Big Joe. However, when he was informed that there was a disturbance in the club he had to instruct someone else to escort Brute instead while he came to see what the problem was.
He was close by when he heard Kyle ridiculously claiming that he was here to beat up his boss.
"Since you're Otto, then the bastard must be here as well. So why don't you call him out and let's find out if I'm bluffing?" Kyle responded with his gaze focused on Otto.
"Oi take it easy kiddo, why the rush?" Otto chuckled.
"Don't you play video games kid? You will need to fight the mob first before facing the final boss. This means you'll have to go through everybody to get to Big Joe. Were you thinking it was going to be that easy when you barged in here?" Otto explained.
Kyle sneered in anger. There were more than fifty thugs inside this club and he wasn't so sure if he could really take all of them on but that didn't mean he was going to back down either.
"Bring it on," Kyle declared.
"Oooh, I thought you would be scared but I guess not. Let's make this more interesting...." Otto smirked. "This applies to anyone. I'm offering five grand for whoever deals the final blow to the kid." Otto told everyone.
"Shitty bastard" Kyle cursed when he saw the eye's of every thug glaring at him after Otto made the announcement. It was already evident that Kyle was going to have a very rough night for this moment onwards.
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